38 weeks - Just BIG!

I'm now nearly 39 weeks with #2 so here's a recent picture. I'm getting pretty big and John has referred to me as a torpedo, as only a loving husband could.

At our appointment Thursday, the doctor noted that I'm about 2-3 cm. dilated but that isn't odd for a second kiddo. She said we will probably check in to the hospital around 5.

What's your favorite thing?

We’ve added an interesting feature to our dinner activities. We were having some challenges getting Jeremiah to stay focused on dinner. He was playing with his silverware or drink, which was making dinner frustrating and long for us all. However, in the past week plus, we’ve started talking about what the favorite parts of our day are, with one catch. Before we answer or before we are willing to ask him, he has to eat things. I think we’re actually all enjoying it and it’s brought fun conversation, involving our son, to dinner. Occasionally his answers are baffling – like last night when his favorite part of the day was coming home from church, although our day contained making cookies, carving a pumpkin, taking a walk, playing games, and more. To each their own opinion….

Jeremiah specifically requested a spider on his pumpkin and his daddy obliged.

Jeremiah has had some other fun activities this week. He wrapped up swimming lessons, with the opportunity to use the diving board. Daddy lowered him down in to the water to the instructor. He enjoyed going underwater enough to do this 4 times! We think he delighted just as much in getting to pick a drink out of the vending machine at the pool, as a treat for finishing swimming lessons.

On Friday night, we went to the movie theater to watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. He did really well, although he thought the end was a little scary. On Saturday, we joined a local Illini club at a game watch. He liked getting to spend time with Jane and Eric, even if our team didn’t fare so well.

He has expressed a recent interest in knowing what day of the week it is so we’ve been talking about this quite a bit. He now knows his days of the week and usually notes what tomorrow will be when we discuss what today is. Now, if we could get him to understand that yesterday isn’t any time in the past, but only the day before today. Right now yesterday could be something that took place 3 months ago. It’s kind of cute!

What's in a name?

Jeremiah seems to be getting excited about being a big brother. We borrowed a few books from the library about new babies and he has drawn similarities between the book and our life, including Mama Bear having a big belly (his mommy has a big, round belly) and small bear becoming a big brother (he's going to be a big brother)!

He's also shared a few of his ideas for naming the baby. We have idea where they came from, but they are, at least, real names now. I don't think we'll be using them, but we'll keep them under wraps for now anyways.

Jeremiah's also expressed a great interest recently in people's "whole names". He knows he is Jeremiah Virgil Todd and knows both of our whole names. He delights in asking other people what their whole names are too!

In other baby #2 news, we've decided to leave the envelope sealed! We'll find out if baby is a boy or a girl when he/she decides to make his/her entrance.